MORAL POLICING

While many people have called the Valentine's Day Special Moral Policing regressive and wrong, we feel that people sometimes go out and judge something without trying to understand what it does for them; For the society.So what if they forced you into it, they just tried to add a little...

Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Police is under fire for the way it handled the 'Kiss of Love' protest at Kochi's Marine Drive on Sunday.
Although the event organisers have not complained against the police, regional news channels have been critical of them.
Police lathicharged the supporters and even took protestors into "preventive...

Through a Facebook page it was a call to the people interested to come forward with their husbands/wives or partners to kiss or share a hug at marine drive to protest against the moral policing act at a restaurant in Kozhikode.
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Thiruvananthapuram: In a move against moral policing, the youth in Kerala have called on people to participate in a 'Kiss of Love' protest on November 2. But the planned protest hasn't gone down well with many.
A group of volunteers gathered at Kochi's marine drive to promote the protest planned on...

Thiruvananthapuram: "Kiss of love'" volunteers have been attacked by the alleged 'moral' police while they were at marine drive propagating the programme they are organising on November 2.
Through a Facebook page it was a call to the people interested to come forward with their husbands/wives or partners to kiss or...

Cochin: Youngsters of Kerala have taken a bold step forward. They have announced coming Sunday as hug-and-kiss day at Kochi's Marine Drive.
This comes in response to an act of moral policing by Yuva Morcha workers last week. The workers vandalised a restaurant in Kozhikode alleging that it facilitated immoral...

Thiruvananthapuram: In a strong reply to 'moral policing' by Yuva Morcha workers, some youngsters have decided to organise a programme at Kochi's Marine Drive in protest of last week's vandalism in a Kozhikode restaurant.
According to reports, the event is slated to take place on November 2 where people are open...

Panaji: Goa may be one India's popular tourist haven, but of late, the state has been more in the news for attempts at moral policing by its ministers who have spoken out against the pub culture in the state. CNNIBN spoke to some locals to get a sense of what...

Kiran Bedi said that drinking in public places by girls and boys is unlawful after a policeman and a local woman were caught on camera slapping a young girl at Ghaziabad police station. The girl had been detained by the police after locals complained that she was found drinking with...

Bangalore: Participants at a discussion claimed alcohol was the main reason for the recent attack at the Morning Mist Homestay in Mangalore. Kannada thinker M Chidananda Murthy, senior advocate Pramila Nesargi, Womens Commission head C Manjula and KSTB chairperson Sacchinanda Hegde said the victims were under the influence of alcohol....

Mangalore: From an outsiders point of view, Mangalore with its booming economy looks like any other cosmopolitan city in the making. However, behind this facade is a deep divide within the society which is leading to frequent frictions that some call attack on individuals freedom; while others describe it as...

Mangalore: Was the recent homestay attack a result of the turf war between selfproclaimed protectors of Hindu culture in Mangalore? Investigating officers think so after learning from reliable sources that Sharan Pumpwell of Bajarang Dal and Subash Padeel of Hindu Jagaran Vedike had developed hostility towards each other after an...

Bangalore: The State Womens Commission has castigated Mangalore district police for failing to contain selfproclaimed moral police in its report on the recent Mangalore homestay attack case. Chairperson of the commission Manjula, who had visited Mangalore recently, would submit her report to Home Minister R Ashok on Wednesday.
In the...

Mangalore: A victim of the Padil homestay attack, who was barred from taking exams by her college, did not appear for both the papers, sources told Express. With Thursday being a holiday on account of Raksha Bhandan, the internal examinations are likely to end on Friday or Saturday, sources informed...

Bangalore: The incident was aired on national television and written about extensively in newspapers; there were dharnas, protests by citizens, there was turmoil everywhere but in the journey to contradict an incident that hit our society, did we forget about the victims? Did the effect of the entire shameful episode...

Mangalore: Victims of Saturday's homestay attack seem to be feeling the aftereffects of the incident. A management college in Mangalore merely gave a verbal communication to a victim of the homestay attack that she will be barred from the internal third semester examinations slated to begin on Wednesday. Attempts by...

Mangalore: I would think twice about enrolling my children in some of the colleges in Mangalore, Commissioner of Police and father of two children Seemant Kumar Singh said on Monday. Making this admission two days after vigilantes attacked young revellers at a birthday party, the Commissioner highlighted what he described...

Mangalore: Colleges in the city on Monday remained closed in response to a bandh call given by students to protest against the attack on girls and boys at a homestay in Mangalore on July 28, allegedly by activists of a Hindu outfit.
Students of St Aloysius college staged a demonstration in...

Mangalore: Eight people have been arrested in the attack on a group of youngsters partying at a private resort in Mangalore. The members, reportedly owing allegiance to a proHiindu group, called 'Hindu Jagran Vedike' allegedly beat up and harassed young women and men at a resort on Saturday evening. Reportedly,...

Bangalore: Taking a serious view of the moral policing act in which activists of a Hindu outfit assaulted girls and boys at a private homestay in Mangalore, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Sunday rushed a top police official to probe the incident, which has triggered protests.
As the attack...

Mangalore: About a dozen girls and boys bore the brunt of moral policing when a proHindu organisation on Saturday allegedly raided a local private homestay and attacked them, triggering off protests from public and opposition parties alike.
According to police, a 50member group, suspected to be members of 'Hindu Jagaran Vedike',...

Mumbai: Assistant Commissioner of Police (Social Service Branch) Vasant Dhoble, the policeman whose job is secure largely due to the unwavering trust the police commissioner has in his policing style, has been told to cool it for a few days. Till Tuesday to be precise, as Arup Patnaik, commissioner of...

Mumbai: It is the stuff of films, an angry cop, ever controversial, hated and loved in equal measure. ACP Vasant Dhoble is back in the headlines with a controversial crackdown on a Mumbai pub, trying to detain German girls without allegedly giving them an explanation. Is this policing or harassment?
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Mumbai: Mumbai's controversial top policeman ACP Vasant Dhoble raided a massage parlour in the eastern suburb of Powai. Seven girls were rescued and sent for medical examinations. The parlour owner was arrested for allegedly running a prostitution racket.
For months, Dhoble has been on the warpath, making headlines for raiding and...

Mumbai: Controversial Mumbai policeman ACP Vasant Dhoble believes that he stands vindicated even after a court let off the women whom he detained and branded as 'prostitutes'. Speaking to CNNIBN, ACP Dhoble said, "The police don't frame the laws. The laws are framed by the legislators. The police's job is...

Madurai: A crosssection of hostellers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has locked horns with wardens and administrators over restrictions imposed on 'Hostel Night' celebrations.
While upset students have dubbed the move 'moral policing', faculty members claim they are only imposing reasonable restrictions.
The Hostel Night celebrations are an annual ritual...